The Familiarity of Strangers

出版者:Yale University Press

作者:Francesca Trivellato

页数:480

出版时间:2009-7-3

价格:GBP 35.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780300136838

图书标签:地中海贸易EconomicsEarlyModernEurope史學理論

Taking a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, this book blends archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis to understand how the Sephardic Jews of Livorno, Tuscany, traded in regions near and far in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Francesca Trivellato tests assumptions about ethnic and religious trading diasporas and networks of exchange and trust. Her extensive research in international archives - including a vast cache of merchants' letters written between 1704 and 1746 - reveals a more nuanced view of the business relations between Jews and non-Jews across the Mediterranean, Atlantic Europe, and the Indian Ocean than ever before.The book argues that cross-cultural trade was predicated on, and generated familiarity among strangers, but could coexist easily with religious prejudice. It analyzes instances in which business cooperation among coreligionists and between strangers relied on language, customary norms, and social networks more than the progressive rise of state and legal institutions.

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其實可以寫一本東南亞版的Familiarity of Strangers。

有可能因为自己是外行，但确实是博士期间读到的最受启发的书。